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'Homeland' takes a left turn? New season focuses on Muslim civil rights, female president-elect ...
Fox News ^ | January 20, 2017 | Carole Glines

Posted on 02/03/2017 12:16:20 PM PST by EveningStar

Full title: 'Homeland' takes a left turn? New season focuses on Muslim civil rights, female president-elect's CIA battles


The Showtime drama "Homeland" has shocked many longtime fans by taking an apparent left turn.

The sixth season, which premiered on Sunday [January 15], features former CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) disillusioned by the war on terrorism and returning home to the United States with daughter Frannie to head up a non-profit in Brooklyn that defends American Muslims...

Meanwhile, the "Homeland" episode also introduced a female President-elect Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel), who questioned the hard line approach against domestic terror cells and pushed for a "demilitarized CIA." ...

Former "Homeland" fan ... Rush Limbaugh noticed the change ...

Limbaugh concluded, "I said, 'Wow, I wonder how the audience is going to react to this?'" ...

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: homeland; muslim; showtime
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To: Castigar

I finally a couple of years ago got around to watching the HBO series “The Wire”. Season One first episode I was hooked and watched the entire first season in a kind of binge watch.

Season two just was not as good and I gave up on it. My take on some these kind of shows is that the first one or two seasons they are on fire and then for different reasons they fall off.

I have watched the first episode of “Taboo” and it is certainly different and I may finish it’s season.


41 posted on 02/03/2017 1:49:54 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: EveningStar

I watched the second episode earlier this week. Carrie is slowly discovering that the “peaceful” muslim she’s been trying to protect isn’t so peaceful. I’m not ready to give up on it yet. I’m thinking (and hoping) that the “leftist” slant on the show does an about face around mid-to-late season.


42 posted on 02/03/2017 1:55:09 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (WE WON. GET OVER IT.)
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To: EveningStar

An excellent option for distraught Democrats: just record Homeland 6 and watch it over and over and...for, say, 50,000 times. Eight years will be over in an instant.


43 posted on 02/03/2017 1:55:16 PM PST by RossA
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To: EveningStar

The change is tone is particularly stupid since Carrie spent most of Season 5 chasing down Islamic jihadis and stopping them from releasing sarin gas inside a main train station in Berlin - all while NOT employed by the CIA.


44 posted on 02/03/2017 1:58:25 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Optimus Prime

The first 4 seasons were amazing.


45 posted on 02/03/2017 2:02:42 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: EveningStar
When was it ever not leftwing?

For those of you who are familiar with the show, you may recall that in past seasons it was accused of being bigoted toward Muslims because it portrayed radical Islamic terrorists in a bad light.

Not my impression. Damian Lewis's character was portrayed in a positive light -- more positive than negative anyway.

Maybe Arabs or Arab-Americans had a problem with the show, but Muslim terrorists, not so much.

46 posted on 02/03/2017 2:06:19 PM PST by x
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To: EveningStar

This is the first season I checked out. Not a good show. Trying Black Sails.


47 posted on 02/03/2017 2:20:19 PM PST by stillfree? (Sooooo Deplorable, but more ireedeemable.)
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To: EveningStar

I have never watched this program (or for that matter any of hollyweirds crap for the last 25 years), why would any body deliberately watch hollyweird propaganda?
There is to much to life to waste your time on PC television fantasy.


48 posted on 02/03/2017 2:21:29 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: tuffydoodle

You gotta admit; Corporal Hicks knew how it had to be done.


49 posted on 02/03/2017 2:24:27 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Exit148

Don’t know, but that appeared to me at the time to be the gist of the story and I tuned out...


50 posted on 02/03/2017 2:41:16 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: EveningStar

I haven’t watched anything produced by the alphabets in years. Total garbage with no socially redeeming value whatsoever.


51 posted on 02/03/2017 2:48:07 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: EveningStar

Shows how much I care or know about it.

Thanks.


52 posted on 02/03/2017 3:12:02 PM PST by Grampa Dave (This is about news that never happened, so it doesn't qualify as fake news! Thanks Chaguito!)
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To: Bratch

Most—not all—Hollywood “conservatives” would be left-leaning by our standards. They’d be zotted inside a week!


53 posted on 02/03/2017 3:15:34 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Veto!

“I got DVDs from my library and binge watched.”

I do the same thing. When I last visited the tiny library here, I noticed they finally got season 5 in, and I am the first person to have checked it out. Only two more episodes to go. I agree that 1 and 2 were the best, and it’s been downhill from there. From everything I’ve been reading, it’s doubtful I’ll watch season 6.


54 posted on 02/03/2017 3:16:31 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: MHT
VCR? Does Homeland come on at
55 posted on 02/03/2017 3:18:38 PM PST by Rastus
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To: stillfree?

Kind of want to warn you against Black Sails, but it requires spoiling a storyline.


56 posted on 02/03/2017 3:24:38 PM PST by Rastus
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To: fivecatsandadog

Maybe Carrie is just overmedicating her crazy, like at the start of season 2


57 posted on 02/03/2017 4:28:47 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I never ever set out to make anyone feel safe. - S E Hinton)
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To: 5th MEB

F$#!ing A!


58 posted on 02/03/2017 4:38:05 PM PST by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: AlaskaErik
I haven’t watched anything produced by the alphabets in years.

This is on Showtime.

59 posted on 02/03/2017 4:47:07 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
After watching the first episode of this season, I bade Homeland farewell and removed it from our DVR subscription list.

I give you credit for surviving the first episode. I think I got through the previews before dumping it from the DVR list. That and a few reviews from my fellow FReepers.

I'm just worried that the "24" remake starting Sunday could suffer the same fate.

60 posted on 02/03/2017 4:51:12 PM PST by ssaftler (January 20, 2017: Morning in America)
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